by Karen Downing | Jan 4, 2023 | What's On
Timetable January 2023 WHAT’S ON AT WHISC – January 2023 WHISC. The Women’s Health Information & Support Centre (WHISC) is a charity dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and their families throughout Liverpool and the surrounding areas....
by Julie Potts | Aug 25, 2022 | Volunteering
Volunteers form an integral part of the WHISC team, without them we would not exist as a charity. WHISC provides a rolling programme of volunteer training events covering different issues throughout the year. We offer a wide range of volunteering roles, please see...
by VigoWeb | Nov 22, 2021 | historic posts
Our Claire is reaching out… This weekend I was looking forward to going to a concert to see a band I’d been wanting to see all my life but had never had the opportunity to. Unfortunately, as the date approached, I became more and more anxious about how I...
by VigoWeb | Nov 11, 2021 | News
This week our Claire is playing by the rules… A clip from BBC Sounds caught my attention this morning. In it a caller reveals a sneaky way he has discovered to win at Monopoly: He uses up all the houses so that people can’t build their own. I have to admit...
by VigoWeb | Nov 8, 2021 | News
Our Claire has been to the vet… This week, I took my cat to the vet for her annual booster jab. Whilst she was there, the vet weighed her and found her more than a kilogram over weight. This shocked me because this meant she was even more overweight than she was...
by VigoWeb | Oct 27, 2021 | historic posts
Our Claire has been looking at reducing her waste… With empty shelves and rising food prices, I’ve begun to look at how to make more of less. The concept that’s grabbed my attention is zero waste: the challenge to send nothing to landfill. So, where...
by VigoWeb | Oct 18, 2021 | News
Our Claire has been learning a new language… I have a foster sister who is profoundly deaf and when I was about 12 she began to learn sign language. It intrigued me how she could communicate with just her hands but I also felt it separated us as I could not...
by VigoWeb | Sep 23, 2021 | News
Our Claire has been baking again… With the return of The Great British Bake Off (my fave’s Freya) and WHISC holding their very own bake off for World Mental Health Day, I’ve been inspired to bake again. I used to bake every week when I was a kid but,...
by VigoWeb | Sep 2, 2021 | historic posts
Our Claire is making plans… Last week I wrote about my friend, San, who had died. According to her wife, Clare, San wanted people to go dip their toes in the sea. So, last Sunday, my friend Ali and I arranged to go down to the beach and do just that. After a...
by VigoWeb | Aug 26, 2021 | News
Our Claire is grieving… My friend Sandra (San) died yesterday. She was one of the first people I met when I moved into the area and brought so much good into my life. I was far from alone in that. She was someone who dedicated her life to helping others. She...
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